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  • Super Special Seminar tba

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom

  • Language and Mind Seminar – “Quotative ‘Be Like’”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom

    Title: Quotative 鈥楤e Like鈥� (joint work with Andreas Stokke (Uppsala)) Abstract:聽 There are a variety of familiar ways of talking about our mental states and speech acts, such as direct discourse (as in, ‘Ellen said, 鈥淚’m leaving now!鈥濃��), indirect discourse (as in, 鈥楨llen thought that she would leave鈥�). DD and ID continue to raise difficult…

  • Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Sarah Sawyer (Sussex): “Kinds of concepts”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom

    Abstract. 鈥斅營n this paper I argue that聽concepts fall into distinct kinds according to such things as their direction of determination, their modal range, and the nature of their referents. Such properties determine a given concept’s eligibility for genuine revision.聽As a result, different kinds of concepts require different treatment in the context of conceptual engineering. Understanding…

  • Conceptual Engineering Seminar | Paul 脡gr茅 (Paris) & Cathal O’Madagain (Ben Gu茅rir): “Concept utility”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58吃瓜, United Kingdom

    Abstract. 鈥� Practices of concept-revision among scientists suggest that concepts can be improved. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union revised the concept PLANET so that it excluded Pluto, and insisting that the result was an improvement. But what could it mean for one concept or conceptual scheme to be better than another? Here we draw…